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Halve vs Halver - What's the difference?

halve | halver |

As a verb halve

is to reduce to half the original amount.

As a noun halver is

a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide.

halve

English

Verb

(halv)
  • To reduce to half the original amount.
  • To divide into two halves.
  • To make up half of.
  • * M. Arnold
    • So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
  • (architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

    • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    halver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a fisherman who places a net to catch fish in the retreating tide
  • (pluralonly) sharing]] in [[half, halves
    • Let's go halvers on the tab tonight.

    Quotations

    sharing * 1816 :like a Scotch schoolboy when he finds anything, "Nae halvers and quarters--hale o' mine ain and 'nane o' my neighbour's." — Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Vol.2, 1816